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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
It will be down to the quality of your answers, but in part that is how you deliver them too.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,266
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
Give it another week and then chase them up. Sometimes things are delayed beyond anyone’s control, so giving them a grace period of a working week is never a bad thing unless you need to (not want to) find out the answer now.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,261
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
You are probably picking up on this much more than your interviewers were. A lot is taken into consideration when assessing someone too, so I don’t think this is necessarily going to be a key decider in the outcome.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,260
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
I strongly advise not putting them on LinkedIn. It’s my opinion, but I don’t think this is something to add to your profile. I also don’t think they are suited to the careers events/open day section of an application form. I think it just causes more doubt on why you are not securing...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,238
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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What am I doing wrong?
You aren’t doing anything wrong - you are securing multiple final stage interviews and trying your best to prepare for them. I would just keep encouraging you to plug away at it. There are plenty of firms outside of the three you have mentioned, and I am sure if you kept applying you’d find one...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #2
- Forum: General Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
When you say mentioning ACs in what context do you mean and to whom?- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,220
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Pre-employment Vero Screening Frustrations
You’d just have to provide one of the other sets of evidence.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #22
- Forum: General Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
If it’s just a right to work check, this won’t take very long as it will require you to provide your passport.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,206
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
I wouldn’t apply until very late. All the provides put a huge amount of pressure to commit to the course early, but most of them you can sign up to in the days and weeks before the course starts. Whether you choose to self fund is up to you though - plenty of people do and many don’t - there is...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,199
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Pre-employment Vero Screening Frustrations
1) any tax returns, proof of invoices/payments, proof of contracts, or reference from an accountant (this is what I have provided in the past as a contractor) 2) not an issue - you’ll just have to provide two sets of information. One set as a contractor and the other as an employee. 3) not...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #21
- Forum: General Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4
Yes, you can reference it as an upcoming scheme. Generally I would encourage people to reference it somewhere in an application unless the firms were incredibly different to one another.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #3,629
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
This is not a stupid answer and actually something quite sensible to bring up. By the sounds of it, you weren’t asking for sympathy, you were showing your ability to take feedback on and act on that feedback. That is a positive quality to demonstrate. This is most likely over thinking / over...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,182
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
This should be what are the common themes in how you selected the firm you applied to. If they aren’t common themes, then explaining why you have applied or very different firms and what was your reasoning or strategy behind that decision making.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,181
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Kirkland open day rejection - advice for vacation scheme?
Just keep applying. The firm has encouraged you to do so for their future programmes, so I would take their advice and apply to them again in the future. The open day would have been limited in spaces and they couldn’t offer everyone - they may have felt you wouldn’t benefit as much when...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
One question is fine - it would only really be if you didn’t ask any questions that this can be a worry.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,175
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4
Congratulations on your TC!- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #3,614
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
There really isn’t a set approach as it will depend on what you are highlighting. I would probably start of by explaining why you think it’s important to highlight whatever it is though in the first instance, and then go on to detail whatever you think is relevant.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,149
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
no - this is not necessarily an issue - it is just an opportunity to provide information you feel you haven’t had the opportunity to highlight. But plenty of candidates may not have anything else they want to highlight, and so they wouldn’t need to use this opportunity.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,126
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4
Anywhere between 24 hours and 2 weeks.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #3,610
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
If they have given you their email address or you were provided it as part of the recruitment process, then yes it’s not an issue doing this. If you have had to track down their email, then maybe less so (unless it’s in the public domain).- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #17,120
- Forum: Applications Discussion